... Falsehood, for the good or evil side ; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast... The Poetical Works - 44. oldalszerző: James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 472 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| 1861 - 356 oldal
...writhes in pain, And dies among his worshipers. BRYANT. Though the cause of evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong, And albeit she wander outcast...beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong. Let fraud and wrong and baseness shiver, For still between them and the sky The falcon Truth hangs... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 oldal
...chosen, O my people, on whose party dust against our land ? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throngTroops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong. Backward look across the ages... | |
| Frank Moore - 1864 - 364 oldal
...forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, in whose party thou shall stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the...beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong. We see dimly, in the Present, what is small and what is great ; Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn... | |
| Frank Moore - 1864 - 364 oldal
...forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, in whose party thou shall, stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the...against our land ? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong ; And albeit she wander outcast now, I see around Troops of beautiful, tall... | |
| Frank Moore - 1864 - 364 oldal
...forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, in whose party thou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the...against our land ? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong ; And albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful,... | |
| Richard Grant White - 1866 - 368 oldal
...goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and Hast them chosen, O my people, on whose party tliou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the...beautiful, tall angels, to enshield her from all wrong. We see dimly, in the Present, what is small and what is great; Slow of faith how weak an arm may turn... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 342 oldal
...from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land ? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast...from all wrong. Backward look across the ages and the beaoonmoments see, That, like peaks of some sunk continent, jut through Oblivion's sea ; Not an ear... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 340 oldal
...from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land ? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast...throng Troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield he* from all wrong. Backward look across the ages and the beaconmoments see, That, like peaks of some... | |
| Frank Moore - 1866 - 654 oldal
...forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the...our land '•: Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong ; And albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng Troops of beautiful,... | |
| 1882 - 620 oldal
...words will sooner or later find a fresh fulfilment : — " Though the cause of Error prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong, And, albeit she wander outcast...beautiful, tall angels to enshield her from all wrong." But to return from this personal digression. Let me just give a word of caution on the other side,... | |
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